> miscdas,> P.S. How would you embed a font into a stack?
Thanks. I overlooked Courier. It doesn't work quite as well as Monaco but it is certainly readable. So the following should work on both the PC and the Mac. In the message box run:
go url "http://home.infostations.net/jhurley/CryptDivisionCourier.rev";
Jim
=========== Courier looks fine on WIN XP pro, MC 2.4.3
Couldn't you use tabbed fields to get the proper alignment with any font?
I don't think MC or Rev allow embedding fonts. You could do a work around by doing a screen capture of each numeral in the font you like. You need to be careful about the size and alignment of each captured image. Then use the images in place of numerals.
miscdas
miscdas,
I don't think I can make the tabstops work. Because the puzzle numbers (divisor and dividend) are randomly generated, I need to right justify all fields (the number of digits below could be 1,2,3,4 or 5). Tabs don't line the letters or numbers very well. Even with left justification it isn't perfect. A thin "I" will line up on the tabstops. Its *center* will be displaced slightly from the center of an "X" above.
In any event, your suggestion of using Courier is probably a good universal solution. It is common to almost all computers--certainly Macs and PCs.
Thanks,
Jim
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sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:How would you embed a font into a stack?I don't think you *would* do that. It's possible to do it on the Mac side,
thanks to Mac files having resource forks, but it's not possible on any other
platform, as far as I can tell. Thus, I'd bet that Rev can't do it *at all*,
on *any* platform.
What you *could* do is make yourself a preOpenStack handler that gets a
list of all the user's installed fonts -- see also: the fontNames function --
and does something *if and only if* one of your stack's fonts *isn't* installed.
"Does something" could mean putting up a dialog box to warn the user that
some things won't look nice; it could mean warning the user about the font
problem, giving instructions on how to solve it, and shutting down; it could mean a
lot of different things...
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Cubist,
Quite so. I suspect that most computers will have Courier. In any event, I haven't any plans to distribute the stack beyond this list.
Thanks,
Jim
Jeanne DeVoteo wrote:
The contextual menu doesn't set the style property; it uses the commands (toplevel, modeless, modal, palette) to redisplay the window in the desired style. (It assumes you want to make a temporary change for editing, not to lock the stack to a particular style.)
Jeanne,
Yikes. This is probably not obvious to many users. And I doubt the documentation would help--it is not the sort of thing one would consider looking up.
Is there some language one could use in the menu that would suggest that this is a temporary change in mode for the purpose of editing? Perhaps "Stack Mode (Edit only)"
Thanks,
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